Be Excellent To Each Other

*Revokes one of Grim...'s full stops* How do you like that, Grim.. ?

It's an ellipsis, not three full stops

Grim…

Try revoking that…

An elipsis is clearly three full stops, Grim.., so there!

Feex

Bugger.

I'd had a long day, was coming down with some sort of throat thing, so decided not to go to the gym tonight. Intention was to have an early night. I'm now a bottle of wine in and tomorrow is going to be horrible.

Still, at least I'm not at the music quiz.

Just invented a new drink. 1/3rd grape juice and 2/3rd Pepsi. It's delicious, like cherry coke but grapes.

I like the sounds of that.

Comment on my niece's timeline from one of her friends about some barfing issues my niece's kid is having: "she could be lactos and tollerent "

Christ.

Just watched Dispatches:Hunted, about gay rights in Russia. It's just awful.

I've been up since twenty past four after going to be at quarter to one.

Those numbers don't make sense to me. I'm tired.

Got up early, and hungover, to make the early train for my early meeting. Checked trains online and set off. Then all the trains got cancelled. FFS.

I'm tired.

The Commute from my bedroom to my office was fine, cheers - my corridor was must uncongested*.

TV - listen to Bass Cannon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3cE9iXIx9c

I am going to the Red Dog Saloon for lunch. I can't decide whether to have a burger or some BBQ stuff.

Clearly the answer is to have both. And a couple of shot of fancy bourbons. And a few US craft beers. And a side of wings.

Is that the one with the Devastator Challenge? If so, you know what to have.

Yes.

But it's a work lunch so I probably shouldn't.

Holy shit, EA really are the biggest cunts:

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/Android/ ... sp?c=57158

Yep. I kind of had an unofficial boycott going considering I won't install Origin (or Uplay for that matter) on PC, and they've not released any game on console that I've been interested in recently (considering they've ruined Battlefield and my interest in online shooters has waned in any case), but I may just make it official now.

The idea of having people email them with issues they're having is fair enough but that way of doing it is just so fucking awful and I really struggle to imagine anyone thinking it wouldn't just look like a terrible move on their part. I presume the difference between the iOS and Android versions is due to iOS not allowing them to fire up the system email app from within another app or something.

Only being able to click on 5-stars in order to put a review of any kind on the app store is shocking.

I'd boycott EA, but Madden and Battlefield.

You can actually put as many or as little stars as you want after you click that button and get into Google Play but yeah, it's fucking horrific.

Feex.

I played Madden 09 and it was ok, but I have no desire to play another one. They ruined BF3 with trying to make it more like CoD and BF4 sounds like a bug-ridden mess.

BF4 is better than BF3, but nowhere close to the joy that was BF:BC2.

I'll continue to play Simpsons: Tapped Out and never spend a fucking penny on it. Take that EA, you tits.

I don't remember BF3 suffering these kinds of problems though:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014- ... ter-report

I think it got rushed out to meet the console launches. It seems pretty good now. I've not played dozens of hours of it or anything but I've put a few in and had no problems.

I've come up with a unit of monetary expense to use when people ask 'how much did you spend on (hobby thing)?' The HORL. The HORL is defined as the price of one hour of horse riding lessons from a reputable Riding School. It must be proper lessons, if in doubt check the website for a 'curriculum' or similar. Round here, it's 35 quid per half hour.

Usage:
'Hey Pundy, how much have you spent on gaming this year?'
'Less than 10 HORL!' (Less than 700 quid)

See, sounds much less, and doubles as a caution 'I could be doing something REALLY expensive!'

I've had a few crashes to dashboard, but BF4 is pretty solid.

From that report

"3 months after release. Battlefield 4 works to a standard I'd expect from a boxed video game from a major publisher. The PS4 version is solid and reliable (although still hasn't done enough to fully earn my trust), and this game that once fired us up with promise and power is finally doing itself justice. EA's also still trying to salve the wound, kickstarting a player appreciation month running through February that piles rewards on to those active in the game. Too little too late? No, actually. That's the luxury of class. A lesser game would have died after 2 days of Battlefield 4's dilemmas, but such is the strength of the brand and the quality of the game under the crumbling rubble of mistakes that people will still play every day."

Sure it was a bit buggy to start with (even though I didn't personally experience anywhere close to the amount of problems other seemed to report) but it's pretty solid these days.

Horse Riding Equivalence Scale, maybe?

Usage:
'Hey Pundy, how much have you spent on gaming this year?'
'Less than 10 HORES!' (Less than 700 quid)

I like this!

Titanfall being Origin not change your mind ?

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2014/02/05/t ... in-to-play

Looks like CoD with mechs. Not bothered at all.

I've just completely fallen out of love with online shooters, I think.

I've played Titanfall and it's glorious but there's no chance I'll be getting an XBONE to play it, though. Shame really.

I'm thinking i'll go PC on it - I already have Origin stuff so its not a big deal to me although it seems to be a big deal to Neogaff that its an EA released game and so will come out on EA's shop

It's on the 360 too.

I have a big problem using mouse and keyboard to play FPS games now, which is a weird thing to say being as I used to be the complete opposite and hate playing them on a controller.

Plus it's bound to be on PS3&4 at some point.

Believe it or not, I can't remember buying an EA product since Desert Strike on the Amiga. Guess their products have never really appealed to me.

I would be playing on PC with a 360 controller anyway (or being pedantic I'd be playing on an iMac in Bootcamp)



They have been pretty clear that the first game would not be (presumably because Microsoft have paid them vast sums of money to do this) however I do think that Titanfall 2 , or Titanfall EX or Titanfall Special edition will come out on the PS3 / PS4 at some point in the future.

I think this is being blown up a little, they are saying, "how do you like our game? Is it really good, in which case we don't need to do anything, or is it only okay? If it is okay, how can we improve it?" At no point are they forcing you to provide a 5 star review in the App store.

Plenty of 'good' EA games since then

Mirrors Edge / Mass Effect / Dragons Origin / Kingdoms of Alamur / Saboteur / The Sims / Battlefield / Plants Vs Zombies / Need for Speed / DeadSpace / Fifa / Madden / Syndicate

Just to name a few - however Best EA game would be something like

They're not forcing you, no. But the way that dialogue is presented means that to provide a less than five star review you have to lie to the question it asks you. If you tell the truth you'll be funnelled away from the app store which will come with the side-effect of skewing all their official app store review towards five stars. That's especially insidious when the game's senior producer is specifically pointing at high Google Play ratings as a way to downplay criticism of the game.

And be competitive online against mouse/keyboard players?